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A Deadly Thaw

Inspector Francis Sadler, Book 2

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A Deadly Thaw

By: Sarah Ward
Narrated by: Julia Anthony
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About this listen

It's 2004. In Bampton, Derbyshire, Lena Fisher is arrested for suffocating her husband, Andrew.

Spring 2016: A year after Lena's release from prison, Andrew is found murdered in a disused mortuary. Who was the man Lena killed 12 years ago, and why did she lie about his identity? When Lena disappears, her sister, Kat, follows a trail of clues delivered by a teenage boy.

Sarah Ward's second novel confirms her place as one of the UK's most exciting new crime writers.

©2016 Sarah Ward (P)2016 W.F. Howes Ltd Crime Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

Critic Reviews

"The most engaging debut I have come across in a long time." (Yrsa Sigurdardottir, praise for In Bitter Chill)
"A twisted, skilful and entirely intriguing mystery." (Quentin Bates, praise for In Bitter Chill)
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I thoroughly enjoyed the first book in this series but why the change in narrator for this book. The story seemed okay, even though I did have to skim because it got to the stage where I had no idea which character was speaking because they all seemed to have similar accents (men and woman). I’m not sure if the narrator had read the book previously but I doubt that very much.

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This book may be flawed, but it deserved a better reading than that!
I have heard worse, but only by amateurs. Many mispronunciations, even more mistakes of intonation indicating a failure to understand the meaning of the text, and a horrible mess of mangled accents.
Maybe the narrator was seeing the text for the first time? How unprofessional.
Other listeners would do much better to read the book.
I have to give a star rating for performance. Make it minus 1.

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